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"Sexy face"
If you are just starting, and want that face in your portfolio, see if a photographer you've shot with before and enjoy will shoot it. I always felt kind of ridiculous making the sexy face until one of my frequent photographer and good friends shot me in lingerie. We had a good time with it, laughing and such. Now that I have my own personal formula down I can shoot it with anyone, but it's a good way to start. Mar 09 11 06:59 pm Link Deanna Lindsey wrote: Anytime I see a girl "try" to look sexy, it pretty much sucks. It should come naturally. Maybe with tons of practice and trial and error, you'll get it. But I don't think there's a magic formula for it. Slightly open mouth, squinty eyes, arched back are starting points but I think there's so much more to it. I think the solution is unique to each model. Mar 09 11 08:50 pm Link it is all on the eyes! You have to think about sex to give that sexy face. Mar 10 11 10:09 am Link Deanna Lindsey wrote: To me, the sexy face is more of a smirk, like "I have a secret". I watched a photographer one time tell the model to think of a time when she got away with something she shouldn't have been doing. BAM! Sexy face! Mar 10 11 11:32 am Link QuettaMarie wrote: Agree! Plus the photographer needs to get your eyes brighter! Mar 10 11 11:43 am Link I can't do the traditional "sexy face" either. I usually just think of "Oh, is that so?" and go from there:   Mar 10 11 11:43 am Link Deanna Lindsey wrote: YES! music totally lets me show way more emotion than crickets chirping and the camera clicking... Mar 10 11 02:22 pm Link David-Thomas wrote: looks like she is at the dentist's office Mar 12 11 04:01 pm Link David-Thomas wrote: lololol Mar 12 11 04:07 pm Link Optical Delusions wrote: Wow. Just tried that and it works. Keeper. Mar 12 11 04:12 pm Link C A T H Y wrote: I think this is good advice Mar 12 11 04:14 pm Link Laureate wrote: I think I kinda do the same! I look at the camera like I look at my mirror when I'm practicing alone. Well, I try to. The camera ain't as pretty as my mirror! ;-) Just kidding. :p But it doesn't give me feedback. xD Mar 12 11 04:17 pm Link M Clements wrote: Hell nah! Makes me look like a frog! It pushes my muscles behind my chin out...Not a nice look for me! Mar 12 11 04:19 pm Link Maja Stina wrote: Yay! I feel the sexiest when I am home alone in a big t-shirt and my glasses. I pretend that I am back there. Works every time! Mar 12 11 04:23 pm Link Maja Stina wrote: Hahahaha oh well good to know it doesn't work for everyone. Maybe if a frog were to try it they'd look like Heidi Klum. Mar 12 11 04:25 pm Link great thread Mar 18 11 01:45 pm Link Hillary Devi R wrote: on the similiar note. I think angry. I don't do sexy intentionally. Mar 18 11 02:22 pm Link Use a fan to blow a little into the eyes, that will help to close them a little... the mouth will relax if you give yourself a couple of open-handed slaps, take it easy on the slapping but I sure works... Also thinking about sex, focus on the area around the belly button, focusing lower doesn't get the best effect. Mar 18 11 02:32 pm Link I guess it all depends on what is meant by a sexy face or look. The descriptions include all kinds of looks. For me the hard part is getting away from the "projected" sexy look to something much more natural. To do that requires trust between the model and the photographer that isn't at all easy to develop. Not so much a matter of trying to look a certain way as it is letting go and being a certain way. The models I work with all have their own methods for achieving that look but it is always a look that is them and not the look they would like to be... Or it is them and not a false projection of what they think they want to look like. Ask the people that are close to you what they think. When are you the sexiest to them? Then somehow be open enough to bring that look to the set... Mar 18 11 02:40 pm Link Deanna Lindsey wrote: I always thought the 18 years old Jennifer Connelly will be on the "list" Mar 18 11 11:36 pm Link Richard Dubois wrote: Thanks! I definitely wasn't overthinking at that moment. Mar 19 11 12:22 am Link I don't think you can just cope any kind of expression when you have a completely different facial structure. Look for your own kind of sexy  . no matter what you do, it will never look like the picture you showed in your original post. I think you're doing a pretty good job here, your own kind of sexy  another tip I do have is looking up people who have similar faces, and see what they do. when it comes to the eyes, I see a bit of anne hathaway going on there... she has a very chique, understated kind of sexy, with always a hint of sadness or madness    so just work with what you've got, and find your own type of sexy face, because copying someone elses probable won't work Mar 19 11 01:33 am Link It's always good to take a look at what the photographer is shooting. That way when you try different facial expressions, you can know which ones look good and which ones don't.. HOWEVER, some of my "sexy faces" look great in some lighting.. but look AWFUL in other lightings... so it's very important to learn how your face looks in all types of light. Lighting, styling, story, and all that... these are very important things that attribute to which kind of sexy look you should give. Mar 19 11 02:18 am Link A great photographer needs only let the model be who they are or want to be. What makes you feel sexy is all that counts. Sleepy eyes can be sexy for those who like sleepy eyes. If you feel sexy because you are let express yourself then a great photographer will have you see through the camera past the photographer and hit home to the viewer. That is a photographers job, when it works it comes off whatever the light, or anything else. If you feel you want to play the part, then you do so with the right people. A long time ago there was a film (I still have it) When Harry met Sally?? and there is a scene where she (Meg Ryan?) fakes a orgasm in a restaurant. Super funny, and a glimpse into what an actress can do. Good models can do the same. Mar 19 11 02:33 am Link |
